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When Torchy Brown first appeared in 1937, she was smart, funny, beautiful and talented. She was also African-American — a groundbreaking character created by Jackie Ormes, the first black professional female cartoonist.
Torchy and a later character, Patty-Jo, were a lot like their creator, who...By Jim Loganhttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019356/drawing-experienceThursday, February 21, 2019 - 09:00All News @ UCSBDesigns on the Futurehttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019353/designs-future
It would be hard to find someone more prepared for a job than Silvia Perea. An architect by training — she earned a Ph.D. from the Polytechnic University of Madrid — she has spent the past 11 years as a curator of exhibitions around the world. Before that she was a university professor and edited...By Jim Loganhttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019353/designs-futureWednesday, February 20, 2019 - 09:00All News @ UCSBPromising Beginningshttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019357/promising-beginnings
In recognition of their promising early-career achievements, UC Santa Barbara mathematician Xin Zhou and neuroscientist Thomas Sprague have received fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Each year the foundation selects fellows from a diverse group of researchers nominated by their peers...By Harrison Tasoffhttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019357/promising-beginningsWednesday, February 20, 2019 - 08:00All News @ UCSBTheatrical Legacy of a Hate Crimehttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019358/theatrical-legacy-hate-crime
In October 1998, Matthew Shepard was brutally killed in what became the most high-profile homophobic hate crime in U.S. history. That same month, less than 700 miles to the east, Eric Jorgensen was coming out to his closest friends.
Both men were university students: Shepard at the University of...By Tom Jacobshttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019358/theatrical-legacy-hate-crimeWednesday, February 20, 2019 - 08:00All News @ UCSB‘Child Marriages’ — Coercion or Choice?https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019341/youthful-discretion
Two out of five girls in Sub-Saharan Africa marry under the age of 18. A global movement to end “child marriage” often assumes that they are coerced into marrying by their families at a cost to their schooling, mental health and physical wellbeing.
“That’s a dominant narrative within the...By Jim Loganhttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019341/youthful-discretionMonday, February 18, 2019 - 08:00All News @ UCSBTransformations Demystifiedhttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019355/transformations-demystified
A wealth of potential exists in inorganic synthesis for the development of advanced materials that can perform sophisticated functions and drive complex processes. Researchers have long been developing a body of knowledge to map these chemical reactions and predict their results. Particularly in...By Sonia Fernandezhttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019355/transformations-demystifiedFriday, February 15, 2019 - 12:00All News @ UCSBTampering with the Brakeshttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019354/tampering-brakes
We’ve all seen these people. Maybe at one point in time we’ve actually been these people: messy, falling-down drunk, slurring and incoherent, precariously close to catastrophe … and asking the bartender for another shot.
For the majority of us who imbibe, there is a certain point at which we stop...By Sonia Fernandezhttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019354/tampering-brakesThursday, February 14, 2019 - 10:15All News @ UCSB‘The Future is Here’https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019352/future-here
In the late 1960s, so few other Latinos attended his college, Cástulo de la Rocha could find and personally call them all in a matter of days. And as a student activist in a growing Chicano Movement, he did just that.
“There was an ongoing debate at the time whether there were 20 or 40 or 50...By ﻿﻿﻿Shelly Leachmanhttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019352/future-hereThursday, February 14, 2019 - 06:00All News @ UCSB‘New Dawn for Freedom’https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019347/new-dawn-freedom
We generally think of Frederick Douglass — abolitionist, orator, writer, philosopher, intellectual, statesman and human rights activist — as a solitary figure. But an exhibition at UC Santa Barbara makes plain that his family played a central part in his tireless work for decades.
“A ‘New Dawn for...By Jim Loganhttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019347/new-dawn-freedomWednesday, February 13, 2019 - 10:00All News @ UCSBA Glimpse into the Futurehttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019345/glimpse-future
Ten years into the future. That’s about how far UC Santa Barbara electrical and computer engineering professor John Bowers and his research team are reaching with the recent development of their mode-locked quantum dot lasers on silicon. It’s technology that not only can massively increase the data...By Sonia Fernandezhttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019345/glimpse-futureWednesday, February 13, 2019 - 10:00All News @ UCSBA Trailblazerhttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019350/trailblazer
Sometimes what we really need is someone who can show us how it’s done. For 30 years and for countless students, UC Santa Barbara physics professor Elisabeth Gwinn has been that person.
And now, in recognition of her dedication Gwinn has been awarded the American Association for the Advancement of...By Sonia Fernandezhttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019350/trailblazerWednesday, February 13, 2019 - 09:30All News @ UCSBFor the Common Goodhttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019349/common-good
Mental health. School safety. Housing and homelessness. Immigration. There are no quick fixes or easy answers for such massive societal challenges, but surely research can help pave a path toward solutions.
Believing deeply in that promise, UC Santa Barbara alumni Louise A. Pahl ’77 and Stephen D....By ﻿﻿﻿Shelly Leachmanhttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019349/common-goodTuesday, February 12, 2019 - 09:15All News @ UCSBAn Operetta for the #MeToo Erahttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019346/operetta-me-too-era
In an unprecedented collaboration, the UC Santa Barbara Library and UCSB Opera Theatre will present the American premiere of a work by a proven master of music and theater.
Both performances of the operetta — which was selected from the library’s Michael and Nan Miller Operetta Archive — will be...By Tom Jacobshttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019346/operetta-me-too-eraMonday, February 11, 2019 - 12:00All News @ UCSBHow to Flip a Coral Reefhttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019344/how-flip-coral-reef
Tropical reefs are vulnerable ecosystems, sensitive to a variety of environmental conditions and disturbances, which can change their composition from vibrant coral reefs to vast fields of seaweed or barren rubble.
Now researchers at UC Santa Barbara have established that these distinctly different...By Harrison Tasoffhttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019344/how-flip-coral-reefMonday, February 11, 2019 - 12:00All News @ UCSB‘Improbable Things Happen’https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019348/improbable-things-happen
For some of us, they carry the bright blue of our grandfather’s eyes. For others they result in the characteristic cleft chin or the familial tendency toward color blindness.
But in some families, the genetic mutations handed down from generation to generation aren’t as benign. And for one family...By Sonia Fernandezhttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019348/improbable-things-happenMonday, February 11, 2019 - 11:30All News @ UCSB